Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don’t notice whether it’s passing quickly or slowly.
IVAN TURGENEVSternly, remorselessly, fate guides each of us; only at the beginning, when we’re absorbed in details, in all sorts of nonsense, in ourselves, are we unaware of its harsh hand.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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So many memories and so little worth remembering, and in front of me – a long, long road without a goal.
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However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
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Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
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If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
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A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
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I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor’s nature.
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In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country’s fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!
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The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
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So long as one’s just dreaming about what to do, one can soar like an eagle and move mountains, it seems, but as soon as one starts doing it one gets worn out and tired.
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Most people can’t understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
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Bazarov drew himself up haughtily. “I don’t adopt any one’s ideas; I have my own.
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Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. It can give no pleasure, yet it deprives you of that most precious of rights – the right to swear and curse at your fate!
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There is a sweetness in being the sole source, the autocratic and irresponsible cause of the greatest joy and profoundest pain to another.
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Behind me there are already so many memories Lots of memories, but no point in remembering them, and ahead of me a long, long road with nothing to aim for I just don’t want to go along it.
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